The Cinquain Is A Five-Line Twenty-Two Syllable Verse Form Created By Adelaide Crapsey In Response To The Tanka And Haiku Forms Which Were Then Coming Into Vogue Among English-Language Poets. Because It Is A Western Form The Cinquain Is More Expansive And Rhetorical. It Lends Itself To A Variety Of Uses. A Book Of Cinquains Contains Poems That Are Descriptive Humorous Meditative And Dramatic.